Excerpt from Introductions: Painters, Sculptors and Graphic Artists

We have no particularly interesting facts about his parents or ancestry, but all his critics mention his surviving sister Mabel, the English actress, who was a sympathetic helpful comrade. When he was still a Child, symptoms Of tuberculosis, and a genius which overflowed into many fields of artistic endeavor, appeared simultaneously. In 1883 he was giving concerts with his sister in London. Shortly afterwards we hear of him reading omnivorously, starting a history Of the Armada, making clever caricatures of his mas ters at Brighton Grammar schooi, taking part in theatricals, drawing his first published sketches, and writing a farce which enjoyed the serious critical attention of the town where it was performed. He left school in 1888 and worked successively in an architect's studio and an insurance Office. Although many pictures of an earlier date exist, his career as a professional graphic artist may be said to have begun in 1893, with the publication of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'arthur, by J. M. Dent Company. In April of that year Joseph Pennell, the well-known American etcher, in troduced the new illustrator in the first number of The Studio. From that time forward the story of his life is an inspiring but painful journal of a dying genius, working feverishly and searching in vain for a climate which would give him the strength necessary to com plete his work. He died at Mentone on March 16, 1898, in the twenty-sixth year of his life, after having been received into the Catholic Church.

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